Happiness and Academic Malpractice
Dolan writes very clearly—an unusual attribute for an academic—and brings a fresh approach to the study of happiness.
Nicholas Wolfinger
· 7 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
On Its 70th Anniversary, Nineteen Eighty-Four Still Feels Important and Inspiring
Nineteen-Eighty Four, whose first publication took place 70 years ago today, is itself a sort of anti-novel, one that undermines its own dramatic tension in a way that might now be described as postmodern.
Jonathan Kay
· 15 min read
Quillette Podcast 36 – Gay Icon Sky Gilbert on Being Excommunicated by the LGBT Theater Company he Founded
Jonathan Kay talks to Sky Gilbert, gay playwright and drag queen, about the history of Canada’s gay community and being excommunicated by the LGBT theater company he founded. Sky Gilbert wrote about this ordeal recently in Quillette.
Quillette, Sky Gilbert
· 1 min read
Instagram's Diversity Wars Revisited
They threaten the businesses and livelihoods and professional reputations of good people struggling to navigate a dense web of ideological trip-wires.
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 9 min read
The Fallacy of Techno-Optimism
Instead of empty analogies, the only way to survive change is to have a vigorous debate about the merits of our new ideas—precisely the kind of debate that techno-optimists want to foreclose by appealing to history.
Nicholas Phillips
· 8 min read
Against Big Tech Viewpoint Discrimination
Some might claim that electric power is far more of a necessity that social media access.
James D. Miller
· 4 min read
Indonesia's Unlikely Democracy Remains Resilient
Despite the brief unrest that followed the announcement of Jokowi’s victory, the election of April 17 stands as a testament to the continuing resilience of Indonesia’s young democracy.
Imran Said
· 12 min read
A Modest Defence of the Missionary Position
The irony is that what we often consider the most boring, the most quotidian, the most comically old-fashioned, and unremarkably ordinary way to have sex with another is also the way we encounter our deepest selves because we transcend ourselves to find union with another.
Marilyn Simon
· 11 min read
Superior: The Return of Race Science—A Review
It is reasonably entertaining to read, and does make some valid points about the misuse of “race science.” Unfortunately, it is also tendentious, dogmatic, and seriously misleading about the current state of scientific knowledge.
Bo Winegard, Noah Carl
· 21 min read
The Ultimate ‘Concept Creep’: How a Canadian Inquiry Strips the Word ‘Genocide’ of Meaning
All societies lie to themselves about genocide. But the nature of the lies change over time.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Considering the Male Disposability Hypothesis
A 2016 study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science found that people are more willing to sacrifice men than women in a time of crisis and that they are more willing to inflict harm on men than on women.
Maria Kouloglou
· 8 min read
François Furet: A Man For Our Season
Furet feared that there now appeared to be a simultaneous deadening of politics as the apparently unchallengeable hegemony of quasi-liberal democracy grew, and a dangerous backlash against the system.
Joshua David
· 10 min read
Watching My Own Excommunication—on a Facebook Video
The behavior on display in that video didn’t originate in a place of reason, but rather the realm of spiritual passions.
Sky Gilbert
· 11 min read
Why We Should Read Machiavelli
Machiavelli focused his analysis of power not on ideals, but on the feasible. In affairs of state, virtue was a matter of efficacy, not piety.
Jonathan Church
· 8 min read